A general model for ontogenetic growth

By Geoffrey B. West, James H. Brown, Brian J. Enquist. Nature, 2001

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The origin of allometric scaling laws in biology from genomes to ecosystems: towards a quantitative unifying theory of biological structure and organization (2005, background): “Figure taken from West et al. (2001) with permission.”
Larval instar as a key element of insect growth schedules (2006, background): “…is a large body of empirical evidence however, which indicate that values of the allometric exponent, relating metabolic activity (and, often also the growth rate) to body mass, are below 1 in most cases and are typically close to 2/3 or 3/4 (West et al. 2001, 2004, Ricklefs 2003, Glazier 2005).”
Beyond the ‘3/4‐power law’: variation in the intra‐and interspecific scaling of metabolic rate in animals (2005, neutral): “It is thus not surprising that several investigators have criticized the 3/4-power law and the associated models of West et al. (1997, 2001) by using data from ontogenetic metabolic scaling (e.g. Beuchat, 1997; Riisgård, 1998; Ricklefs, 2003; Bokma, 2004; Makarieva, Gorshkov & Li, 2004b).”
The influence of size‐dependent life‐history traits on the structure and dynamics of populations and communities (2003, methodology): “These experimental findings have been used to develop generic, individual-level models of foraging, growth and development that do not strongly focus on a particular biological species (e.g. Kooijman 1993, 2000; Nisbet et al. 2000; West et al. 2001).”
Bridging the gap from ocean models to population dynamics of large marine predators: A model of mid-trophic functional groups (2010, methodology): “Gillooly et al. (2002), following the work of West et al. (1997, 2001), describe the allocation of metabolic energy at the cellular level, having developed a model that predicts a linear relationship between the natural logarithm of a mass-corrected development time (t/m 1/4 ) and the ambient…”
Scaling from Traits to Ecosystems: Developing a General Trait Driver Theory via Integrating Trait-Based and Metabolic Scaling Theories (2015, background): “Equation (6) has recently been 265Scaling from Traits to Ecosystems shown to be a good characterization of tree growth (Stephenson et al., 2014) and is a specific case of a more generic growth function (Moses et al., 2008; West et al., 2001) that can be applied to both plants and animals.”
The theoretical foundations for size spectrum models of fish communities (2016, neutral): “with “metabolic” theory (West et al. 2001).”
Invited Review - Fight on Plankton! or, Phytoplankton Shape and Size as Adaptive Tools to Get Ahead in the Struggle for Life (2011, background): “Some argue that such intraspecific variation in b is simply a consequence of a narrowed range in organism sizes (West et al., 2001; West & Brown, 2005).”